A sickness or illness. ''He wasn,t feeling good and suspected an illness might be coming on.'' The word can also mean ''sorrow''.
Re: Egritude
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:17 pm
by Dr. Goodword
This one is so old, only a half dozen dictionaries carry it--none of which have any etymological hints. Pull in a little bit out there in left field, Grogie. Just a tad.
Re: Egritude
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 9:33 pm
by Slava
How's about a different "-tude" word? Attitude. Whence cometh the whole "-tude" ending, and just what does it mean to be atti? Then we can throw in approaching a situation with "tude", too.
We just had turdiform, so why not tudiform, to boot? Or should we go with tudistic? Or maybe, even, "Look, dude. I don't appreciate your tuditude. Capeesh?"